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PRIMARY DOCUMENTARY
Thurs 12th Oct | 11.00am | Gate Cinema
Educational Suitability: 4th, 5th & 6th Class
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An Inconvenient Truth
Directed by Davis Guggenheim
USA | 2006 | PG | 96min | 35mm | English
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe.
…An education that could hardly be more urgent…a necessary film.
The New York Times |
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Screening kindly sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). There will be a ten-minute talk by the EPA before the screening and Q&A session post. |
| The Environmental Protection Agency |
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) protects the environment for everyone in the country. They regulate and police activities that might otherwise cause pollution. They ensure there is solid information on environmental trends so that necessary actions are taken. Their priorities are protecting the Irish environment and ensuring that development is sustainable.
They employ 290 people who work in ten locations throughout the country.
The EPA is responsible for:
- Licensing and control of large scale waste and industrial activities to ensure that they do not endanger human health or harm the environment.
- National environmental policing
- Monitoring, analysing and reporting on the environment
- Regulating Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions
- Environmental research and development
- Strategic environmental assessment
- Environmental planning, education and guidance
- Proactive waste management
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